Today in human geo class we watched a video on population pyramids and how important they are. Demographic transition is when you take the age, gender, and trend that goes with it to see where a country will be in a few decades. For example it could be pre-industrial, industrial, or post-industrial. Industrial is when a country is making a lot of money, has a bountiful supply of good paying jobs, and the economy is booming. Countries that are just now industrializing are slowly increasing life expectancy. Rural living vs urban living has changed during the industrial revolution because the factories were in the city so people moved in order to get a good-paying job.
Human Geography Class Today in human geography class we talked about maps. The main map almost every school uses is a Mercator map. Mr. Schick showed us a video from a tv show that used to air a couple years ago. The clip we watched was about a group of people that were having a discussion with the president on changing the maps that almost every school uses. They showed the president how inaccurate the Mercator map was. It showed Africa as a small continent, when really it is much larger, and it makes the United States much larger looking than it really is. The group proposed the idea and came up with a solution to the problem. They wanted to replace the maps with a new, more accurate map called the gall-peters map. After the video, Mr. Schick continued to le...
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